A smelly, sticky criminal case comes to us from our sister website, MLive.com in Michigan. There in the town of Ypsilanti, a so-called mystery pooper had long been plaguing the town's park by pooping on the slides there.

So much so, that the town took out billboards in an effort to "flush the pooper."

Well, there is good news on the feces-fouled playground front. MLive.com reports that police have identified and made contact with a suspect in the case. No charges have been filed, but since police gave the toilet-bowl-challenged suspect a stern talking to, he or she has apparently ceased and desisted, sticking closer to a commode than a children's slide.

James McVay, 44, pleaded guilty, but mentally ill, to murder in the 2011 stabbing of 75-year-old woman in order to steal her car and drive to Washington to kill the president. Now, McVay is the one who has been sentenced to die.

A judge in South Dakota on Tuesday formally sentenced McVay to death for stabbing 75-year-old Maybelle Schein to death as part of his larger plot to assassinate President Barack Obama, the Associated Press is reporting.

Previously, the jury in the case had voted unanimously for the death penalty in the case.

McVay had admitted that he killed Schein and stole her car as part of his plan to drive to Washington and kill President Barack Obama, AP reported. He was later arrested in Madison, Wisconsin.

Sifting through the aftermath of another school shooting in search of a motive, police in Nevada spent seven months probing the life of 12-year-old Jose Reyes.

The Sparks Middle School seventh-grader killed a teacher, shot and injured two students before killing himself.

What the investigation found was chilling. But officials were unable to pin down one clear motive for the rampage. Instead, there is just a mountain of troubling details in this portrait of a homicidal seventh grader.

The boy's phone had photos of violent wars scenes and pictures of the Columbine High School shooters, according to an account in The Reno Gazette-Journal.

He also owned violent video games, used the family's laptop to search for things including bullying and to look up "Top 10 evil children" and "Super Columbine Massacre Role Playing Game," the newspaper reported.

There were also documented cases where the 12-year-old was mistreated by classmates and questions surrounding his social and academic background. All this, according to The Reno Gazette-Journal.

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